The Presidential Election
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While all our eyes and attention is on our own election, the American election season is well under-way with Republican and Democrats offering themselves to their respective parties. One has already been mention. Senator Bernie Sanders, the brother of Larry, standing in Oxford as the Green Party candidate.
Bernie talks the talk
Quote:I’m the only candidate who’s prepared to take on the billionaire class, which now controls our economy and increasingly controls the political life of this country,” he said…"We need a political revolution in this country involving millions of people who are prepared to stand up and say enough is enough, and I want to help lead that effort……Maybe it’s time for a real political shakeup in this country and to go beyond establishment politics,”
He associates his socialism with the Scandinavian welfare state.
Asked if “Is it really possible for someone who calls himself a socialist to be elected president of the United States?”—the senator responded, pointing to Scandinavia as an example of countries in which democratic socialism functions well for a sizable swath of the population, Sanders trotted out a series of reasons why “in those countries, by and large, government works for ordinary people in the middle class rather than—as is the case right now in our country—for the billionaire class.”
Watch the video where he is interviewed
From last January through November, the dominant news shows, ABC, CBS and NBC devoted 234 minutes of prime-time coverage to Donald Trump and 10 minutes for Bernie Sanders. ABC’s World News Tonight awarded 81 minutes of national showtime to Trump last year — and for Bernie: 20 seconds.Yet polls show that in a Trump/Sanders contest, Sanders overwhelmingly wins, which is not what happens if it is Trump/Clinton – that would be a too close to call result.The reason is that Wall St favours a Clinton president – an already proven servant of Capital and any boost for Sanders would be detrimental to her winning so no plaudits fro Bernie
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